Detachable handle for suit-cases and traveling-bags, &amp;c.



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APPLICATION TILED MAY 28. 1910.

Patented Apr. 4, 1 911.

awue/wboz EDWARD Q UINNI eltto'anmfl UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD QUINN, OF PORT HURON, MICHIGAN.

DETACHABLE HANDLE FOR SUIT To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD QUINN, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Port Huron, in the county of St. Clair and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Detachable Handles for Suit-Cases and Traveling-Bags, &c., of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

The object of this invention is to provide a detachable handle for suit cases and traveling bags which permits the owner to identify his property by means of the handle.

The general use of suit cases and traveling bags has been to the traveling public a source of constant annoyance and often of great pecuniary loss by exchanges of like articles taking place in depots, cars, waiting rooms, hotels and other places where travelers meet. As a means of guarding against such accidents I provide a detachable carrying handle for traveling bags and suit cases and the like and as a further protection to prevent accidental exchange between suit cases which might be provided with carrying handles of like manufacture, I provide simple means adapted to the commercial application of my invention for varying the handle fastenings in such manner that each handle applies only to its particular suit case or traveling bag, all as more fully hereinafter described and shown in the accompanying drawings in which,

igure 1 is a plan view showing my improved handle as attached to a suit case; Figs. 2 and 3 are detached perspective views of the handle fastenings to which the handle attaches; and Fig. 4 is a detached elevation of the handle. Fig. 5 illustrates a perspective View of a modification of the variable lock feature of the fastening.

In the drawings A represents part of a suit case, B the car 'ying handle and C the D the handle fastenings secured to the suit case. The carrying handle may be formed as usual with an enlarged curved grip portion and terminates in metal trunnions a 7) in alinement with each other.

The trunnions a and a are provided with enlargements at their outer ends, the enlargement at one trunnion being preferably in the form of a continuous flange c and that Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed May 28, 1910.

l l 1 l l Patented Apr. 4, 1911. Serial No. 563,843.

at the other in the form of a plurality of lugs or warts (Z. The handle fastenings form pivot bearings for the trunnions of the handle and are provided with base plates 6 for securing them in position.

The handle fastening C has a side opening for the lateral introduction of the trunnion a and is provided with a retaining spring f to prevent the accidental disengagement of the trunnion, and the fastening D is provided with grooves with which the warts (Z of the trunnion Z) are adapted to register in the endwise engagement of the handle.

In practice the parts being constructed and arranged as shown and described, it will be understood that the handle may be readily attached by first engaging the trunnion Z) with the ear D and thence engaging the trunnion a with the ear C. To facilitate the engagement the trunnion Z1 should have either a sufficiently loose fit in the fastening D so as to be capable of angular engagement therewith, or what I consider the preferable way it should be secured at right angles to the line which indicates the angular position for engaging the handle with such ear, there being enough spring in the handle to permit of its being engaged with the other car, the opening into which is onthe side opposite from such angular position. Such arrangement provides a slight friction sufficient to hold the handle in position for being readily grasped, the spring f adding additional friction by pressing against the underside of the trunnion a. The spring being thus placed, a downward pressure upon the handle readily disengages it from the fastening C and thence by withdrawing it from the other fastening the owner of the suit case can readily carry it in his pocket when not needed, thereby making it not only diflieult to others to walk off with his suit case, but also preventing him from committing a mistake himself since my invention involves the novel feature of making the position, number and arrangement of the lugs (Z and grooves g a discriminating feature which prevents any other handle to be engaged with the fastenings. There may be a very large number of variations obtained with two lugs, but it is obvious that by using a larger number of lugs and corresponding grooves the number of variations may be indefinitely increased without repetition, as is for instance illustrated in Fig. 5, in

which the handle is shown provided with three warts of different widths, depths, and inclinations, respectively.

I do not limit myself to the particular discriminating means described but include in its scope any or all known means used in the construction of locks and the like to prevent the indiscriminate introduction of other keys than the one particularly designed. The means described however are simple, inconspicuous and deemed to be suflicient for the purpose with the added advantage that they are particularly applicable to the commercial manufacture of suit cases and the like.

What I claim as my invention is The combination with a traveling-case of a carrying handle provided with a pair of alined trunnions, one of which is provided at its end with a plurality of irregularly spaced warts, a pair of'ears with which the trunnions are adapted to engage pivotally to hold the handle in position, one of said ears provided with grooves permitting the endwise movement of the trunnion provided with the warts therethrough, said warts and grooves registering with each other in a non-carrying position of the handle.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

- EDWARD QUINN.

Vitnesses:

ANNA M. Donn, ANNA M. SHANNON.

Gopies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G. 

